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because he didn’t kill me from the womb. So my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 17. Who. Septuagint “because he (the Lord. D. Tirinus.) slew me not in my mother’s womb.” Bible.—Syr. Grot. and so forth explain the Hebrew in the same sense, though it may also agree with the Vulg. from the womb, or as soon as I was born. O that I had never seen the light! Calmet.—He abstracts from the effects of original sin. Tirinus.—It is better not to exist than to be in constant misery. Matthew 26. Saint Jerome Worthington.—The prophet bewailed the abuse which was made of God’s word, by unbelievers. verse 8. Bible.
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